Did You Miss These Popular Ms. Blog Posts of 2013?

This was an awesome year for the Ms. Blog, with more than 2.5 million page views from more than 230 countries. We even had two visits from Antarctica! As we prepare for another year of intriguingconversations on a world’s worth of feminist issues, we want to remind readers of some of the most widely read blog posts of 2013.

What we fail to consider when enforcing restrictions on skirt-length and the tightness of pants is the girls themselves—not just their clothes, but their thoughts, emotions, budding sexuality and self-image. Blogger Marinda Valenti suggests that dress restrictions in schools contribute to the very problem they aim to solve: the objectification of young girls.

An estimated 350 women per 10,000-student college campus are victims of sexual assault each year. Here’s the story of what happened on one campus, where a rape survivor attached to a trashcan for sanitary products a sticker reading “USC Has A Rapist.”

When an Iranian court forced a male convict to wear traditional Kurdish women’s clothes in public, perceiving it as a humiliating punishment, Kurdish men took the extraordinary initiative of dressing as Kurdish women and posting their photos on social media.

Shae Collins is the creator of A Womyn’s Worth, a social commentary blog that addresses interests and concerns of black women. Follow this current Ms. intern on Twitter.